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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Wrike's PM and collaboration software, uses four key elements: folders, projects, tasks, and subtasks to organize and categorize work. For this article, we're covering just the basics of setting up a project in Wrike using these building blocks.

To set up a project using Wrike:

On the left panel of the screen, right-click on your team's name (1) (for this example, I've named mine MY TEAM.)

Click on Add (2) and select Folder (3). Now enter a name for the folder. In my example, I've created two top-level folders, Accounting and Marketing. Under the accounting folder, I've created a subfolder called Financial Systems by right-clicking on the Accounting folder and following the same process. You can use this process to create as many folders and subfolders (like buckets) to organize teams, clients, work stage etc.

After you've created all required folders, follow the same steps by right-clicking on the applicable folder or subfolder and selecting Project. I've created a project called 2017 AP Module Enhancements. Projects display as a clipboard icon instead of a folder.

Figure 1

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Now that you've created your folders, subfolders and project, the next step is to set up project tasks and subtasks if needed (Figure 2). On the main screen (right) click on New task (1) and enter the title for each task you would like to create. Tasks can be sorted by priority, and there's a click and drag feature that can be used to shift task order around. A feature of Wrike projects is the ability to view projects as either lists, boards (Kanban), timelines, streams, timelogs, workloads, and even see project analytics (when the project has commenced and information is available).

Figure 2

Image: Moira Alexander/TechRepublic

Here's a quick peek into each of the available project views mentioned above.